John Berryman
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John Allyn McAlpin Berryman was an American poet and scholar. He was a major figure in American poetry in the second half of the 20th century and is considered a key figure in the "confessional" schoo
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Kipling Arms Apartments, Mandalay Drive, Clearwater Beach, Florida
Dylan Thomas
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Dylan Marlais Thomas was a Welsh poet and writer, whose works include the poems "Do not go gentle into that good night" and "And death shall have no dominion", as well as the "play for voices" Under M
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…Cambridge with a further degree in English in 1938. At Cambridge, he attended lectures by poets T. S. Eliot and W. H. Auden, and also met W. B. Yeats and Dylan Thomas. He returned to America in 1938 and struggled to get a professorship before Van Doren acted as a reference and secured him a position at Wayne State…
Thomas in 1937
5 Cwmdonkin Drive, Swansea, the birthplace of Dylan Thomas
The main surviving structure of the former Swansea Grammar School on Mount Pleasant, mostly destroyed during the Swansea Blitz of 1941, was renamed the Dylan Thomas Building in 1988 to honour its former pupil. It was then part of the former Swansea Metropolitan University campus
Memorial plaque on the former Mount Pleasant site of Swansea Grammar School